Two Months

I can hardly believe she is really two months old. She is so stinkin' cute and I love her to death.

I took her to the pediatrician on Monday. They weighed, measured and evaluated her. Then they poked her three times and made her scream. She was given a clean bill of health and I left the office with the instructions to put her on her tummy more.

So now I do crunches with her on my legs while they're up in the air. She hates being put face down on the floor so by putting her on my legs she gets more tummy action and I get my workout done.

As I'm sure you can tell by the pictures, she's a nice healthy child. My mom says I'm producing miracle grow. Jason and Diana said I'm feeding her whale's milk. Others have commented that she doesn't miss any feedings. Whatever the case may be, she's growing like a weed. She was above the 90th percentile in both weight and length, which didn't surprise me. Her head definitely wasn't in the 90th percentile though. She has a little head like both Rob and I. And she doesn't look like an infant that has a head double the size of her body. :)

Ok, here are her 2 month stats:
Weight: 12.85lbs - 93.21%tile
Length: 23.62in - 91%tile
Head Circumference: 14.72in - 17.06%tile

7/25/10 - Two months old

What a cute little thing! I love this face.


Sunday, 7/25 We went for a walk after it kind of cooled down for the evening. I use the phrase "cooled down" very loosely here. As you can tell by looking at my red face and sweaty brow.

Just another view of my little sweet pea and just how big she is.

One Month

I can't believe my baby is already one month old. She has grown so much both in weight and in length. Will someone please tell her to stop growing. Please.

Yesterday was our first adventure back to church. First I was going to a whole new ward, in a whole new state where I knew nobody. Second, I was going with a baby to take care of. And third, it wouldn't be a real Johnson adventure without me trying something out or going to some kind of activity on my own. Rob had to go to the hospital for mandatory stuff before residency started so I had to go to church by myself. I seriously thought about waiting until next weekend for my first weekend back but realized, whether it was this weekend or another, I would be going on my own a lot anyway. So baby girl and I got dressed in our finest and headed out the door.

When we got home we had our own little photo shoot on the couch. The dress she's wearing is seriously one of my favorites. It's so dang cute!

Sweet Baby Girl

ok so the pictures are in a backwards order and I didn't want to take the time to fix them. so enjoy our little cutie from a week and a half old back to day one.

after taking a ride in the car


she must have been having a good dream.

what a cutie!

Proud grandparents.

sleeping in grandpa's arms after our big move.

The happy family at Daddy's graduation

I couldn't be happier. My awesome husband at his graduation holding his two day old baby girl. What a cute couple of Johnsons.

Baby girl waiting to go home from the hospital

Proud daddy

Welcome to the family baby Cadence. We love you!

I'll post about the delivery and the move later. Sorry, I can only handle one thing at a time. I'm not super mom yet. Enjoy the pictures! We sure do enjoy our little addition.

Oops!

I guess it's been a while since I've taken any pictures of my growing belly. And it's GROWN!

Here are a few funny pictures Rob and I took while we were at the temple for Morgan's wedding. Who said the newly weds were the only ones who should have a photo shoot at the temple? Rob started busting a move and posing so we snapped a few pictures of our own. It was rather fun if I do say so myself.

While the pictures don't really accurately portray my size (these pictures make me look HUGE!) you at least get the gist of my growth. I hope you enjoy.

32 Weeks 2 days.

Chocolate Cake

Aside from my Mugs gettin' hitched, our trip to Utah was focused on a giant chocolate cake for at least a full day and a half.

Morgan wanted me to make her wedding cake despite the fact that I would only be getting into town one day before the wedding. But she's my little sis. I couldn't say no. Luckily I had lots of help on the forefront.

My mom purchased all the necessary ingredients and was ready with all of her energy and spunk to dive right in.

We set up shop at my grandma's house. She has two ovens and lots of counter space for us to make a mess and crank out a wedding cake. Thank heavens for grandmas! :)

All day Thursday was spent mixing, baking, cooling, cutting, washing strawberries, drying strawberries, melting chocolate, dipping strawberries in the melted chocolate, melting more chocolate, dipping more strawberries, baking some more..... I think you get the idea. It was a long day.

However, by 5:30 that night we had all three layers of cake baked, cooled, cut, smeared with chocolate ganache, stacked and dirty frosted and ready for the final layer of chocolate ganache glaze, which would go on the next day. We also had all the strawberries washed and dried and the majority of them covered in chocolate. I'd say that's quite the accomplishment for a day's worth of work.

I wouldn't have been able to do it without all of my helpers. Whether you helped by washing dishes, dipping strawberries, flipping giant cakes, feeding me lunch or just keeping me company throughout the process, your help was appreciated.

Friday the final touches were completed. The cake was given a final coat of glossy chocolate ganache, the support dowels were cut, the sweetened whipped cream was creamed and all the yummy-ness was transported to the reception center where the entire thing finally came together.

I think it turned out marvelous. Yes, of course it had its flaws, but I've warned you before that I'm not a professional so flaws are to be expected right? You better have agreed with me. I won't accept you not accepting my flaws. Or at least I'm going to pretend like I won't accept your unacceptance. Really, I just don't want to hear about it if you don't like my shortcomings. Especially if you don't accept my shortcomings that aren't pertaining to the cake. I'm going to shut up now.

The cake looked GREAT! And it tasted Fantastic too! That's it! The End!

P.S. please don't ask me to make a cake of that magnitude in one day at almost 8 months pregnant. My feet won't like you. They'll cry. Which will make me cry. Then we'll wipe our tears away and say "Yes, of course we'll make your cake." Then we might cry again. It probably wouldn't be that pretty.

Welcome to the Fam

On April 2nd, 2010 we welcomed a new member to our family. My little sister, who I guess isn't so little anymore dadgumit married a fantastic guy.

Chase Birks, welcome to the Leake family!

We're proud to have you. You make our Morgan smile. You make her laugh and you let her be her quirky self. Who could ask for anything better?

Congratulations Mugs! We love ya more than anything.

Stork

Just remember.... I NEVER claimed to be a professional!





We had a shower for Diana last night and I was put in charge of making a cake. I figured the stork was a very fitting character for the cake since that's how they'll be getting their baby. By a very special delivery.

I had fun making the cake but my goodness there were a few times I was ready to give up and bag the whole thing.

THE FROSTING WAS NOT COOPERATING!!

If it weren't for Rob's encouragement I don't know if the cake would have made it to the party. Or it may have just shown up with a giant stork head on it and that's it. That would have been a very lovely sight to see don't you think? A cake with a stork head on it? You probably wouldn't have even been able to figure out that it was supposed to be a stork if that's all you saw.

However, I pressed on and made it past all my frosting dilemmas and got something slapped on the thing called cake. Which by the way was very delicious. Mmm... It was a very moist yellow cake with a very yummy whipped chocolate ganache center and topped with a rather scrumptious frosting. The soft white stuff is lucky I'm labeling it as scrumptious after what it put me through. There were a few other things I could have called it last night, but I didn't.

Anyway, I did finally get frosting on every inch of the cake, not exactly beautifully but hey, I warned you ahead of time. I never claimed to be a professional. If you didn't listen to me then that's your problem, not mine. :-)